[Fribidi-discuss] final forms in Hebrew

[Shachar Shemesh]

Not really. As David said on ivrix, human typists have a legacy too.

          Shachar

Noah Levitt wrote:

>Thanks, Dov. I'll ask ivrix-discuss.
>
>I can see that doing final letters as presentation forms
>would make some things more complicated. I just happened to
>be looking at an input method, and in that case,
>presentation forms would make things simpler. ;-)
>
>Peace,
>Noah
>
>On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at  8:19:34 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>  
>
>>As far as I know it is because of historic reasons and legacy
>>reasons. There are some abbreviations, e.g. which require a non-
>>final form at the end, which would for Unicode mean using a ZWJ.
>>I guess that they decided that the additional complication just
>>wasn't worth it. You might want to ask on the Ivrix list as
>>well. There is a guy there called Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne at qsm.co.il>,
>>who is active on the Israeli standard. I believe that he was
>>also involved on the Unicode standard.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dov
>>
>>    
>>
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